Improvement in seeep-sheaeing table



@uiten vtartes @anni @ffice OLIVER PERRY AND I CLARK PERRY, ORFORTNVILLE, MICHIGAN.

Letters Paten No, 72,674, dated December 24, 1867.v

IMPROVEMENT IN SHEEP-SHEARING TABLE.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY GONCERN:

Be it known that we, OLIVER PERRY and OLAnirPnnnY, of Ortonville, in thecounty of Oakland, and in the State of Michigan, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Sheep-Shearing Table; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.'

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, 'Arepresents a solid und substantial frame, with a table or pintform uponits top,upon which the body of the sheep to be sheared is leid. B and Crepresent frames, which are placed upon each side of the frame A, andhinged to it at their lower ends. These two frumeshave tables upon theirupper ends, which may be made to connect with the table of' freine A.These tables are not level, but slope ofi', or form inclined planes, asrepresented. A' cord, F, connects these two side frames together, and alever, D, to which the cordvis secured, operates upon the frames,drawing them toward the table-oi` frame A. The legs of the'sheep arecaught between the side and the centre tables, and are there held while'a portion of its body is being sheared. 1

This portion of our invention was fully described in a. patent grantedto us in April, 1867. The invention for which we now desire LettersPatent relates more particularly to the half-round sill or bnr G, whichis secured upon the table B', andl the strap H, which is also secured tosaid table; the object of this sill or bar, to actas a rest for the neckof the sheep, and-over which it maybe bent for more conveniently andeasily shearing it. When the sheep is placed up'on its side, its head issecured down to table B bymeans of the strap H, his neck being bent overthe side G. This gives the operator a chance to shear the neck closelyand with great facility.

What We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The sill or bar G, and strap H, used upon the table B', substantiallyasand folithe purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set ourhands, this fifth day of November, 1867.

OLIVER PERRY,

CLARK PERRY. Witnesses:

JOHN H. Dnussnn, G. B. BAnTLnTT.

